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Andrea Graziosi, Collectivization, peasant revolts and government policies through the reports of the Ukrainian GPU (February-March 1930). Seventeen up to now unpublished reports from the former party archives are presented to the reader. They were addressed to the Soviet leadership by the Ukrainian GPU in the cmcial moment of the peasants' reaction to the first wave of collectivization and dekulakization (February-March, 1930). The introductive essay discusses first the genera] interpretative problems they raise, focusing especially on the relationships between 1918-1921 and 1929- 1933, seen as two acts of the same peasant war. It then analyses the specific contributions these reports give to our knowledge of those cmcial months. The essay is concluded by a brief assessment of Western scholarship on collectivization before the opening of Russian archives.

Andrea Graziosi, The great strikes of 1953 in Soviet labor camps in the accounts of their participants. A review.
The review presents a sketch of the great strikes waged by forced laborers in Noril'sk, Vorkuta and Karaganda soon after the death of Stalin in the summer of 1953. It is based both on autobiographical materials and on archival data on the Gulag archipelago recently published in Russia. The changes which preceded and prepared the strikes, the strikes themselves and their consequences are analyzed. Special attention is devoted to the impact of the war in the camps' life; to the ethnic and social composition of the forced labor force; to the role of the various nationalities; and to the demise of Stalin's despotic system, precipitated by the despot's passing but already in the making in previous years, of which the strikes were both a cause and a symptom.

Andrea Graziosi, « Lettres de Kharkov ». La famine en Ukraine et dans le Caucase du Nord à travers les rapports des diplomates italiens. 1932-1934.
Le lecteur trouvera ici une sélection des rapports que l'ambassadeur d'Italie à Moscou et les consuls et vice-consuls à Kharkov, Batum et Novorossijsk ont adressés à Rome entre 1932 et 1934. À l'exception de quatre d'entre eux, ces documents n'ont encore jamais été publiés. Les originaux en italien se trouvent aux archives du ministère italien des Affaires étrangères. Ils décrivent la collectivisation et la famine en Ukraine et dans le Kouban de 1932 à 1934. En raison de leur caractère unique et de leur qualité exceptionnelle, on peut dire que ces rapports constituent actuellement une des sources les plus importantes dont on dispose sur ces événements tragiques. Les problèmes qu'ils posent au spécialiste de l'histoire soviétique sont brièvement discutés dans l'introduction. On y trouve aussi des informations sur les diplomates qui les ont écrits et sur le contexte dans lequel ils ont été écrits.

Exploring the tensions between the rigid legal definition of genocide and the manifold realities researchers have discovered, this comprehensive text offers innovative solutions to address the limitations of the genocide concept, while preserving its usefulness as an analytical framework.

"This is a collection of conference papers that discuss the causes, dynamics, demographic impact, and consequences of the pan-Soviet famines of 1931-33, the Ukrainian Holodomor, the Kazakh great hunger, and the terrible famine of 1959-61 in China produced by the Great Leap Forward."--

<p>Over the past two decades, important studies of the famines in the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China have transformed our understanding of these events and laid the groundwork for the first attempts at comparative analysis. Nevertheless, the great twentieth-century famines caused by state policies remain relatively little studied. We still lack a systematic comparison of their features, at least in part because of the difficulty in conceptualizing the possibility of man-made famine in modern times and because a topic like "Communism and Hunger" may seem to be a contradiction in terms. Yet even a simple list of the past century's major famines suggests that the topic is badly in need of attention...</p>

Abstract
Four distinguished experts on Soviet history and Soviet politics discuss the issues raised by Andrea Graziosi in his article "The Weight of the Past in Post-Soviet Russia," which appeared in the Winter 2020–2021 issue of the JCWS. The article and the discussion forum are the first of several items that will be published in the journal over the next few years assessing a variety of legacies of the Cold War.

This forum includes commentaries by seven experts—Joshua Rubenstein, Paul Hollander, Andrea Graziosi, Roman Szporluk, Jeffrey Hardy, Michael Ellman, and Jeffrey Rossman—on Norman Naimark's Stalin's Genocides, published by Princeton University Press in 2010. Most of the commentators praise the book highly but raise some questions about specific points, such as the use of the term "genocidal," the application of "genocide" to the atrocities perpetrated by Iosif Stalin's regime in the Soviet Union, and the estimated numbers of Stalin's victims. Two of the commentators take stronger issue with Naimark's book, particularly the comparison one might make between Stalin's crimes and those of Adolf Hitler in Germany and Eastern Europe. The forum concludes with a reply by Naimark, who not only responds to points raised by the commentators but also elaborates on his intentions when writing the book.

This forum includes commentaries by seven experts -- Joshua Rubenstein, Paul Hollander, Andrea Graziosi, Roman Szporluk, Jeffrey Hardy, Michael Ellman, and Jeffrey Rossman-on Norman Naimark's Stalin's Genocides, published by Princeton University Press in 2010. Most of the commentators praise the book highly but raise some questions about specific points, such as the use of the term "genocidal," the application of "genocide" to the atrocities perpetrated by Josef Stalin's regime in the Soviet Union, and the estimated numbers of Stalin's victims. Two of the commentators take stronger issue with Naimark's book, particularly the comparison one might make between Stalin's crimes and those of Adolf Hitler in Germany and Eastern Europe. The forum concludes with a reply by Naimark, who not only responds to points raised by the commentators but also elaborates on his intentions when writing the book. Adapted from the source document.